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On The Larry King Show in 1990, a female caller told Gloria Steinem she should rot in hell because the women's movement destroyed the American family. Decades of nutball anger are on vivid display in HBO's doc Gloria: In Her Own Words; even network stars Harry Reasoner and Chet Huntley brim with hostility and smug condescension. Steinem's journey from glamorous young journo to 77-year-old icon of American feminism is enlivened by plenty of archival footage from the sex wars.

What To See, Play, Read Now

What To See, Play, Read Now

Who's Your Padre?

With his breathtakingly beautiful four-and-a-half-hour-long Mysteries of Lisbon, the great Chilean-born director Raúl Ruiz has crafted an audacious, extravagantly entertaining Dickensian melodrama from his popular Portuguese TV miniseries about a poor orphan who learns that his mother is a countess and his father might be the kind priest who cares for him. Ruiz's work is echt art-house, but that doesn't mean it isn't gloriously fun.